Aero-News: Quote of the Day

ANN's Quote of the Day usually derives from current news, though we reserve the right to pick quotes out of history that have a bearing on the day's events and issues.

Sometimes, you'll find them timely and in keeping with the content of the day's news... and sometimes, they'll just be thought-provoking.

Reader suggestions and comments are welcome... and if particularly intriguing, timely, or poignant, may themselves become future Quotes of the Day.

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Aero-News Quote of the Day

“It became clear that this was far and away the best path for us to go. We could have taken a subsonic engine and adapted it. We could have taken a subsonic business model and adapted it. That works, but it’s not nearly as good for our customers and our passengers because it brings the baggage of designs that were never optimized for supersonic flight and significantly increased operating costs.”

Source: Boom founder and CEO Blake Scholl, as he informed an audience gathered on the GSO terminal’s upper concourse that his company will team with a consortium of three lesser-known aerospace concerns to design, produce, and maintain a jet-engine capable of powering an economically-viable, environmentally responsible SST.

FMI: www.boomsupersonic.com